Introductory Text
1.Citation and commencement
2.Interpretation
3.Scope
4.Funding of Services
5.Claims for fees by advocates – Crown Court
6.Claims for fees and disbursements by litigators – Crown Court
7.Very High Cost Cases
8.Proceedings in the Court of Appeal
9.Proceedings in the House of Lords
10.The General Criminal Contract
11.Payments from other sources
12.Indictable-only offences
13.Proceedings for contempt
14.Interim payment of disbursements
15.Interim disbursements and final determination of fees
16.Determination of litigators’ disbursements
17.Interim payments in cases awaiting determination of fees
18.Amount of interim payments in cases awaiting determination of fees
19.Staged payments in long Crown Court proceedings
20.Interim payments for attendance at trial
21.Hardship payments
22.Computation of final claim where an interim payment has been made
23.Payment of fees to advocates – Crown Court
24.Payment of fees to litigators – Crown Court
25.Notification of fees
26.Recovery of overpayments
27.Adverse observations
28.Wasted costs orders
29.Redetermination of fees by appropriate officer
30.Appeals to a Costs Judge
31.Appeals to the High Court
32.Time limits
33.Revocation
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SCHEDULE 1
Advocates’ Graduated Fee Scheme
PART 1 Definitions and Scope
1.Interpretation
2.Application
3.Class of offences
PART 2 Graduated Fees for Trial
4.Calculation of Graduated Fees
5.Table of fees
PART 3 Graduated Fees for Guilty Pleas and Cracked Trials
6.Calculation of graduated fees in guilty pleas and cracked trials—
7.Tables of fees
PART 4 Fixed fees
8.General provisions
9.Fees for plea and case management hearings and standard appearances
10.Fees for abuse of process, disclosure, admissibility and withdrawal of plea hearings
11.Fees for confiscation hearings
12.Fees for sentencing hearings
13.Fees for ineffective trials
14.Fees for special preparation
15.Fees for wasted preparation
16.Fees for conferences and views
17.Fees for appeals, committals for sentence and breach hearings
18.Discontinuance or dismissal of sent or transferred proceedings
19.Noting brief fees
PART 5 Miscellaneous
20.Identity of instructed advocate
21.Payment of fees to instructed advocate
22.Additional charges and additional cases
23.Multiple advocates
24.Non-local appearances
25.Trials lasting over 40 days
26.Assisted person unfit to plead or stand trial
27.Cross examination of witness
28.Provision of written or oral advice
29.Mitigation of sentence
PART 6 Table of Offences
SCHEDULE 2
Litigators’ Fees in the Crown Court
PART 1 Application and Determination of Litigators’ Fees
1.Application
2.Determination of litigators’ fees
3.Prescribed fee rates
4.Attendance at court where an advocate is instructed
5.Allowing fees at less than the prescribed rates
6.Allowing fees at more than the prescribed rates
PART 2 Standard Fees in the Crown Court
7.Application
8.Allowance of standard fees
9.Fees for preparation
10.Standard fees
11.Disbursements
12.Redetermination of standard fees
13.Review of standard fees
14.Appeal to a Costs Judge – standard fees
SCHEDULE 3
Very High Cost Cases
3.Categories of case
4.Levels of fee earner
5.Rates for preparation
6.Rates for non-preparatory work by litigators
7.Daily rates for advocates
8.Rates for preliminary hearings
SCHEDULE 4
Proceedings in the Court of Appeal
1.General Provisions
2.Claims for fees and disbursements by litigators
3.Determination of litigators’ fees
4.Determination of litigators’ disbursements
5.Claims for fees by advocates
6.Determination of advocate’s fees
7.Litigators’ fees for proceedings in the Court of Appeal
8.In respect of any item of work, the appropriate officer...
9.(1) Upon a determination of fees the appropriate officer may,...
10.Advocates’ fees for proceedings in the Court of Appeal
11.Where an hourly rate is specified in the Table following...
12.Where a refresher fee is claimed in respect of less...
13.Where it appears to the appropriate officer, taking into account...
14.Payment of fees
15.Redeterminations and appeals
Explanatory Note